Re: [ANNOUNCE][CFT] kexec for v2.5.48 && kexec-tools-1.7 -- Success Story!

Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-19T18:17:27Z

>> Just to make sure I understand the problem. Until we can make all
>> boot-time BIOS calls work, we need a way to:
>
> A small clarification. BIOS calls will never work 100%. Especially in the
> interesting cases like kexec on panic. So entering the kernel in
> 32bit mode will continue to be the default mode of. This means the
> final solution to problems like this needs to be a good one.

Do we still have the mpstables and other such initdata around as well?
Or did we destroy those on boot? If we're going to do kexec on panic,
perhaps all these should be checksummed for corruption detection
eventually (not now).

M.